Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

Many of us dream of a model railroad empire on a massive scale. While the time, space and resources required usually dictate ...

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.

Wye Bridge Hobbies has a massive model railroad inside the store. Everyone is invited to use the layout and to help with its expansion. Beginners welcome!

MEDINA, Washington — EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this story first aired in January 2019. The owners are now looking for a new home for the model train layout -- ideally an organization that could take ...

A freight train chugs past the blast furnaces of the once-mighty Bethlehem Steel, taking visitors at the Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum in Bethlehem on a journey back to America’s ...

The Ligonier Valley Rail Road is rolling over the track once more — in railroad historian and hobbyist Bob Stutzman’s Latrobe basement. The original railroad operated from 1877 to 1952, hauling ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...